Richard Vedder and Jonathan Robe - An Interstate Analysis of Right to Work Laws

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18. For a listing of previous empirical research on the relationship between RTW laws and wages, see Table 1 of W. Robert Reed, “How Right-to-Work Laws Affect Wages,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 24 (2003), pp. 713–730. 19. Ibid. 20. Data for United States are data for “All States” published at http://unionstats.com/ and are for the proportion of all nonagricultural wage and salary employees who are union members. See Barry T. Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, and Wayne G. Vroman, “Estimates of Union Density by State,” Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 124, No. 7 (July 2001). See also Barry T. Hirsch and David A. Macpherson, “Union Membership and Coverage Database from the Current Population Survey: Note,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 56, no. 2 (January 2003), pp. 349–354, and Gerald Mayer, “Union Membership Trends in the United States” (2004), Federal Publications, Paper 174, http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell .edu/key_workplace/174. 21. National Labor Relations Act. 22. It is interesting to note that Indiana and Michigan, the two states that adopted right to work in 2012, were the states with the largest and the second largest declines, respectively, in union membership over the past half century. This finding suggests that the states most likely to follow suit in the near future would also be the non-RTW states that appear in Table 4. Competitive Enterprise Institute 25
About the Authors Richard K. Vedder studies higher education financing, labor economics, immigration, government fiscal policy, and income inequality. A distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, he is the author of several books, including Going Broke by Degree; The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy (with Wendell Cox); and Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (with Lowell Gallaway). Dr. Vedder earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois. Jonathan Robe is a freelance public policy researcher. Currently a law student, he was previously a research associate at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, where he wrote about higher education policy both in policy reports and in the popular press. 26 An Interstate Analysis of Right to Work Laws
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